2015-08-02T18:28:20ZGender and Healing in the Hippocratic Corpushttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/4131
Gender and Healing in the Hippocratic Corpus
Innes, Alison
Hippocratic physicians sought to establish themselves as medical authorities in ancient Greece. An examination of the deontological texts of the Hippocratic corpus reveals that the Hippocratics created a medical authority based on elite male characteristics. The key quality of the Hippocratic physician was sōphrosunē, a quality closely associated with men and used in the differentiation of genders in the Greek world. Women were not believed to innately possess this quality and so their healing activities were restricted within the Hippocratic framework. Women’s healing activities are only mentioned in the corpus when women are involved in the treatment of other women or self-treatment. The Hippocratic construction of medicine as a male domain fit within a Classical cultural framework, as the cultural anxiety concerning women healers and women’s use of pharmaka are evident in both Greek myth and literature.
2012-10-19T00:00:00ZBeyond child's play : wealth, status, and the death of children in the MH-LH I periods of the Argolid, Greecehttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/3083
Beyond child's play : wealth, status, and the death of children in the MH-LH I periods of the Argolid, Greece
Schleifer, Katherine
This study explores the mortuary remains of children from the MH-LH I periods
of the Argolid, Greece. This examination concentrates on how the child in death acted as
a tool for wealth and status display. Here, children are understood to have perpetuated,
maintained, and reinforced status distinctions between families in their community. The
analysis of one hundred child burials that date to these periods illustrates how the burials
of children were important opportunities used by the families of children to display
wealth and status. Thus, children can be viewed as important factors in the reorganization
of social structure in the transition from the Middle to Late Helladic.
2010-10-27T00:00:00ZThe Princeps Optimus : towards a new reading of Velleius Paterculus' historyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/2923
The Princeps Optimus : towards a new reading of Velleius Paterculus' history
Dawson, Christopher.
Abstract
This thesis works towards a new reading ofVelleius Paterculus' survey of Roman
history, published in AD 29 or 30. Modem scholarship has tended to condemn Velleius as
historian and stylist. Though opinions have started to change in the last few decades, even
the most recent works generally treat him as a passive and perhaps unconscious conveyor
of Roman cultural ideals and Augustan ideology. This thesis argues that the historian is,
in fact, manipulating these themes to make definite political points. It focuses on the
negativity of the history's conclusion as it stands in stark contrast to the preceding
narrative celebrating the principates of Augustus and Tiberius. The thesis tentatively
concludes that Velleius was trying to express concern over Rome's future, and
specifically to influence Tiberius to return to Rome from his retreat on the island of Capri
and curb the power of his "assistant," Sejanus.
2009-02-16T15:46:02ZPatterns in space : a regional study of motif in Minoan wall paintinghttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/2912
Patterns in space : a regional study of motif in Minoan wall painting
Scott, Cindy Lee.
This thesis consists of a quantitative analysis of the regional prevalence of certain
artistic motifs as they appear in Minoan wall painting of the Neopalatial period. This will
help to establish the relative degree of artistic autonomy exercised by each of the sites
included in this study. The results show that the argument for itinerant artists during this
time period is a strong one, but the assumption that these travelling artists were being
controlled by any one palace-centre is erroneous. Rather, the similarities and differences seen suggest that the choices were predicated either by the specific patrons, or by the function of the associated building or room. Thus, the motifs found within this study
should be understood as constituting a cultural identity, with greater or lesser degrees of regional homogeneity, which act as one facet of a number of cultural indicators that can be used to better understand the role of artists and regional dynamics on the island during the Bronze Age.
2009-02-16T15:45:57Z